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PATENT @Trient CHARLES E. EMERY, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

STEAM TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lette rs Patent No. 323.570, dated August 4. 1885.

Application filed September 27, 1884. (No model.)

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES E. EMERY, a citizen of the United States,and aresident ofthe city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful niprovenient in Steam-Tables, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of steanrtables; and it consists of a chambered or hollow table, at least one plate of which, preferably the bottoni, is formed of a series of inverted arches, and is connected with the other plate, which may be constructed with arches or in any customary manner, by a se ries of studs or ribsrat the springing s of the arches; and it further consists of a cross-channel connecting the chambers for drainage.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication, in which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, and in which Figure l is an elevation, partly in View and partly in section, at right angles to the lines of the inverted arches, and passing partly through the center of the cross drainage channel and drip-pipe. Fig. 2 is an elevation at right angles to the elevation in Fig. l, partly in view and partly in section.

The table, as shown, is to be cast in one piece, with a series of connecting-chambers. The :top A, as shown, is a plain plate strengthened internally by ribs a?. The bottom plate, B, is formed of a series of inverted arches, b2.

Ribs or studs a3 forni stays to connect the springings of the arches bt with the top plate. rlransversely to the arches b runs a channel, b, which connects the bottoms of the arches b2, for the purpose of draining the Water of condensation from the arches and carrying it to the drip-pipe G. Openings d through the ribs ai, together with the channel b3, afford free passage for the steam to all parts of the interior of the table.

Vhen the bottom plate of a steain-table is sured That the openings through the ribs are all clear without making theni so large as to reduce the strength. The series of connected arches gives the requisite strength without the use of small connectingopenings.

Having thus fullydescribed my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A chainbered heatingtable, of which at least one plate is constructed of a series of arches, and is connected to the other plate by stays, substantially as specified.

2. A chanibered heating-table provided with an arched lower plate and a crosschan nel connecting bottoms of arches, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

CHAS. E. EMERY.

Wfitnesses:

H. W. YORK, S. G. METCALF.

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